Into the Archives: Photography from the Colville Reservation

In 1937, Clyfford Still co-founded an artists’ colony in Nespelem, the Indian Agency on the Colville Reservation in Washington state. Beginning in 1936, Still sketched and photographed the Native Americans whose livelihoods had been negatively impacted by the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam by the United States government. Washington State University professor and Colville Confederated Tribes member Michael Holloman and CSM Associate Digital Archivist Milo Carpenter shed light on the creation and context of these photographs. Presented in partnership with Denver Month of Photography.